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Shortcast over Coffee
by Shortcast over Coffee
Conversations with heroes from all walks of life
Episodes
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Aswath Damodaran on AI, NVIDIA and the power of reasoning
Welcome to yet another episode of Shortcast over Coffee. Today my guest is Prof Aswath Damodaran. He is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University teaching corporate finance and valuation. He is dubbed the "dean of valuation" but calls himself more a dabbler who...
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Manu Pillai on Gods, Guns and Missionaries : A deepdive on modern Hinduism
Today we have with us Manu Pillai. Manu is the author of the recently released book Gods, Guns, and Missionaries, which explores how European missionaries and colonialism shaped modern Hinduism. In addition to this latest work, he has authored five other remarkable books. He is, without a doubt,...
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Karthik Reddy of Blume Ventures on the Dos and Don’ts of Venture Capitalism
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Karthik Reddy, the Co-founder and Managing Director of Blume Ventures, one of India’s leading early-stage venture capital funds based in Mumbai. Since its inception in late 2010, Blume Ventures has established itself as a prominent player in India’s startup...
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We, the citizens is making public policy fun ft co-author Khyati Pathak
Today, my guest is Khyati Pathak. Khyati is a Singapore-based IT consultant turned cartoonist. She has co-authored the recent release titled "We the Citizens" co-authored along with Pranay Kotasthane and Anupam Manur. The book aims to make basic principles of public policy and economics easy to...
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Prakash Wakankar reflects on his 30-year cricket commentary journey and the upcoming T20 World Cup
Welcome to yet another episode of Shortcast Over Coffee. Today, my guest is Prakash Wakankar. Prakash has been a familiar voice on radio across the world for over 30 years, covering cricket for All India Radio, BBC's iconic Test Match Special, ABC, among others. In his corporate avatar, Prakash…
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How Ati Motors is bringing autonomous moving robots to industry floors ft Saurabh Chandra of Puliyabaazi
Today, I'm excited to have Saurabh Chandra join me. Saurabh co hosts the famous podcast puliyabaazi with Pranay Kotasthane. This episode, however, is all going to be about Saurabh and his exciting startup Ati Motors. Ati Motors is a Bengaluru-based startup founded in 2017 with the vision of...
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The Chitale Bandhu story : Going global with Indian sweets and Bakarwadi and ft Indraneel Chitale
Today, I'm thrilled to have Indraneel Chitale join me. Indraneel is the managing partner of Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale, a company with an annual turnover exceeding 200 crores, based out of Pune, India. The Chitale story began over 60 years ago when Late Shri Bhaskar Ganesh Chitale started a small...
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Understanding India through data: The Data for India project ft Rukmini S
Today, my guest is Rukmini S. Rukmini is an independent data journalist based in Chennai. She and her team have built DataForIndia.com, which aims to expand everyone’s understanding of India through data. The project takes public data, makes it usable, and helps consumers derive descriptions and...
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Praan.io is cleaning the air we breathe : How Angad Daryani built his climate tech startup
Today, my guest is Angad Daryani. Angad is the founder of Praan.io, a deep tech startup bringing clean air to corporate spaces and homes. Praan’s products Hive and Mach 2, have delighted its customers. Praan is the epitome of the Make in India mission, sourcing close to 95% of its parts in India,...
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Guy Kawasaki on working with Steve Jobs, Remarkable people and life lessons
oday, I'm delighted to have Guy Kawasaki as my guest. Guy is the Chief Evangelist of Canva and the host of the Remarkable People Podcast. With a remarkable career journey, he has served as the Chief Evangelist of Apple, a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Brand Ambassador of Mercedes...
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Ep 75 Ek Cup Chai ho Jaye : 'Tea'totalism with Scientist Ajit Bhaskar
Today my guest is Tea Scientist Ajit Bhaskar. Ajit has been researching on tea for over a decade. Ajit is also a marathon runner, a podcast host and a foodie. In this episode I talk to him about his journey towards the current role and everything about tea! I still cannot believe we spent an hour...
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Ep 74 Raffi Krikorian on Twitter, Uber, AI policy and ethics
Today, my guest is Raffi Krikorian. Raffi has had a distinguished career in tech, a career most would dream of. He graduated from MIT and went on to work in senior leadership positions at Twitter and Uber. He was the Senior Director of Engineering at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center and the...
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How Climate Change AI is addressing the hardest problem of our times using machine learning ft Utkarsha Agwan
My guest today is Utkarsha Agwan. Utkarsha is a core team member of Climate Change AI, a global nonprofit that catalyzes impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. CCAI has led the creation of a global movement in climate change and machine learning, encompassing...
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Ep 72 How Voltpost is transforming the urban EV charging infrastructure ft Luke Mairo and Jeff Prosserman
Today my guests are the co founders of the startup Voltpost Jeff Prosserman and Luke Maira. Voltpost is a hardware-as-a-service company that transforms lampposts into smart electric vehicle charging stations. In today's episode, I talk to Jeff and Luke about how they started Voltpost, how…
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Ep 71 How Ridepanda is changing urban mobility and sustainable transportation in the US ft Chinmay and Charlie
Today, my guests are Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman, the co-founders of the exciting startup Ridepanda. Ridepanda is a digital platform offering e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-mopeds as a way to promote eco-friendly transportation. In this episode, I talk to Chinmay and Charlie about their...
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Ep 70 Akash Banerjee ( The Deshbhakt) on the 2024 elections, Pran-Pratishtha and 9 years of Modiji
Today my guest is Akash Banerjee. Akash is political and social satirist. He established and hosts #TheDeshbhakt, recognized as India's most influential and widely viewed political satire platform. The Deshbhakt distinguishes itself by blending factual analysis with a mix of sarcasm and dark…
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Ep 69 Gaurav Mittal on the Politics of Urban Transportation in India
Today my guest is Gaurav Mittal. Gaurav Mittal is a Researcher in Mobility Governance. His research interests lie at the intersections of urban transformations, political economy, and transport governance. He works on investigating the policies that shape material urban mobilities in small and...
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Ep 68 Andrew Revkin on reporting for the New York Times, Amazon Rainforests and the obsession of startups over Carbon Capture
Today my guest is Andrew Revkin. Andrew is best known for his groundbreaking work at The New York Times, where he covered climate change and environmental issues, bringing complex scientific topics to the public. Throughout his career, Andrew has traveled from the Amazon rainforests to the…
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Ep 67 David Roberts (Volts Podcast) on Moving away from Fossil Fuels, Climate Policy and the Inflation Reduction Act
Today's guest is David Roberts, an influential writer and communicator on clean energy and climate change policy. David Roberts has spent over 15 years covering energy and climate change, most prominently at Vox. His insightful analysis and commentary have made him one of the leading voices on…
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Ep 66 Karthik Kumar on Evam and Aansplaining
Today my guest is Karthik Kumar. Karthik is an actor, director, writer, standup comedian, and an entrepreneur. He is the well known founder of Evam. He has acted in popular movies like Alaipayuthe, Yaaradi Nee Mohini, Poi Solla Porom and recently Rocketry. Karthik will be touring in the last leg…
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Ep 65 Dr. Taya Cohen on the Truth about Honesty in Relationships and Workplace
Dr. Taya Cohen, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Business Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. An award-winning researcher published widely in top management and psychology journals, Dr. Cohen focuses her work on critical issues like honesty, ethics,...
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Ep 64 Apar Gupta on his fight for Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality and Privacy Protection
Today my guest is Apar Gupta. Apar Gupta is a lawyer who serves as the executive director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a nongovernmental organization that advocates for digital rights and liberties. In 2015, Gupta and others launched SaveTheInternet.in, a public campaign that fought...
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Ep 63 Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes, aka The Shor Police on Independent Music, AR Rahman and Coke Studio
Today, my guests are Clinton Cerejo and Bianca Gomes of the band Shor Police. The duo has composed music for notable recent movies like "Jane Jaan," "Bob Biswas," and "Dobaara." In this episode, I will talk to them about their work as a male-female band, which is quite rare, and also their...
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Ep 62 Nathan Goodman on Climate Migration
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Ep 61 Pranay Kotasthane from Puliyabaazi talks about Semiconductors and Geopolitics
Today my guest is Pranay Kotasthane. Pranay is deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme. He co-writes "Anticipating the Unintended," a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks, and co-hosts "Puliyabaazi," a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on...
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Ep 60 Prem Panicker looks back at Life, Cricket and Journalism
Today my guest is Prem Panicker. Prem has been a journalist for over 30 years and was one of the seven journalists who were part of the Rediff.com start-up team. He has extensively written and edited features for different publications. In this episode, I talk to Prem about his growing up days…
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Ep 59 Talking Medical Ethics and Organ Transplantation with Dr Sanjay Nagral
Dr. Sanjay Nagral is a prominent Indian surgeon and expert in medical ethics, specializing in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. He is based in Mumbai and holds the position of a professor and postgraduate teacher. Dr. Nagral has contributed significantly to the field through extensive...
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Ep 58 How TTK Prestige Became a Billion Dollar Company with TT Jagannathan
Today it's my great honor to have T.T. Jagannathan on the show. T.T.J., as people call him, is a gold medalist from IIT Madras. He was pursuing his PhD at Cornell when his parents, T.T. Narasimhan and Padma, visited him. They had bad news - their business was struggling and they were borrowing at...
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Ep 57 Talking Tamil Stand Up Comedy and Music with Jagan Krishnan
Today my guest is Jagan Krishnan. Jagan is a stand up comedy artist and writer based in Chennai and currently touring with his piece Jagane Thandhiram. In this episode I talk to Jagan about his early days in standup comedy, tamil film music and standup comedy in regional languages More about…
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EP 56 Seeing the Unseen Amit Varma (The Seen and The Unseen Podcast & Everything is Everything)
Today my guest is Amit Varma. Amit hosts one of India's most popular podcasts, touching on economics, public policy, history, and culture. The podcast is called The Seen and the Unseen. Amit also co-hosts the popular YouTube show 'Everything is Everything' with his close friend, economist Dr.…
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Delhi Air Pollution : This IIT Kanpur Lab is Working on Making a Difference
Today my guest is Prof Sachidanand Tripathi. Dr Tripathi is an acclaimed Indian scientist in atmospheric sciences. He is a professor at IIT Kanpur and has won India's top science award, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, for his work. He is an elected fellow of the country's major science…
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The Little Known Shady Face of Indian Pharma with Dinesh Thakur
My guest today is Dinesh Thakur. Dinesh Thakur trained as a chemical engineer before becoming a whistleblower against the pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy. While working at Ranbaxy, he witnessed extensive data fraud and reported this wrongdoing. His actions led Ranbaxy to plead guilty in an…
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Baradwaj Rangan Looks at Indian Movies
Today my guest is Baradwaj Rangan. Baradwaj is a National Award winning Film Critic and the Editor-in-Chief of @GalattaPlus. He is also the author of two books 'Conversations with Mani Ratnam' and Dispatches from the Wall Corner: A Journey through Indian Cinema. Support me here...
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Let's talk Pseudoscience, Atheism and Sadhguru with Pranav Radhakrishnan
Today my guest is Pranav Radhakrishnan. Pranav is a terrific science communicator and the man behind the popular YouTube channel Science is Dope, where he talks about pseudoscience and analyzes some popular conspiracy theorists. Pranav is an engineering graduate from the National Institute of...
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Exploring Lucknow : Mughlai and Awadh Cuisines ft Krish Ashok
Salaam-e- Krish Ashok! Ashok has been a part of the show earlier where we spoke at length about food homeopathy veganism and Carnatic music and I highly recommend you check the episodes out . I’ll link them in the show notes. Ashok recently made a food trip to Lucknow and I thought I need to ask...
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Reporting from the Indian Hinterland and Press Freedom with Parth MN
Today my guest is Parth MN. Parth is an independent journalist based in Mumbai, India. He mainly covers rural India for multiple publications. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, People's Archive of Rural India, Times of India Digital, among other outlets. He…
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How we Built Topmate.io ft Ankit Agarwal
📈 Get FREE Stocks in US https://a.webull.com/hMq1FXwqDxNxXGto77 https://a.webull.com/NcH1FXwqDxNxXGtk2b I use WeBull & RobinHood for stock trading which are legal. Link subject to change depending on the expiry of the offer Use Fiverr to Hire Top Talent : https://tinyurl.com/mxsyw37y...
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Goods and Services Tax : The Good the Bad and the Ugly with Shruti Rajagopalan
Today my guest is Dr Shruti Rajagopalan. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she leads the Indian Political Economy Program and Emergent Ventures India. In this episode I talk to Shruti about the initiatives she works on at Mercatus, economics...
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Talking Everything Cricket with Nitin Sundar
Today my guest is Nitin Sundar. Nitin was a sub-editor with Cricinfo and has been an avid follower of the game since the mid 90s. I will talk to Nitin about his career at Cricinfo and everything cricket pretty much… from stadium experience to commentators to the 2023 World Cup More about Nitin...
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Economics of the South Indian Movie Industry with Veretan Journalist Sreedhar PIllai
My guest today is Sreedhar Pillai. Sreedhar is a trade analyst and film critic and has been a journalist in the movie industry for over 35 years. I will talk to Sreedhar about the economics of the South Indian movie industry today - from ticket pricing to film distribution to OTT and satellite...
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Talking Democracy, G20, Modi and 'Fluffoganda' with Meghnad
Meghnad or meghnerd on YouTube is one of India’s most recognized political analyst and commentator. Now an independent content creator, previously Meghnad was a writer and a journalist for Newslaundry. His show for them called Consti-tution is filled with wacky humor along with a lucid…
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Life and Times of Meghnad aka memeghnad
Meghnad or meghnerd on YouTube is one of India’s most recognized political analyst and commentator. Now an independent content creator, previously Meghnad was a writer and a journalist for Newslaundry. His show for them called Consti-tution is filled with wacky humor along with a lucid…
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How to Fall in Love with Working Out : Breaking Down Squats and Deadlifts with Shruti Jahagirdar
Donate to this podcast at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shortcastovercoffee Check out my material at https://linktr.ee/shortcastovercoffee?utm_source Our guest today is Shruti Jahagirdar, a passionate fitness trainer, entrepreneur, and nutritionist. Shruti was a competitive national level…
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Sikh Immigration to Canada and the Komagata Maru Incident : A History Lesson
As the relations between India and Canada hit an all time low, here is a brief history about Sikh Immigration to Canada
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Trash Talk : History and Politics of Trash with Patricia Strach and Kathleen Sullivan
Slipping on a banana peel is a cliché, a vintage vaudeville gag. But its origins weren’t just slapstick comedy. Before it became a comedy trope, banana peels menaced New Yorkers for decades. This is how bad the trash situation was in the early 1900s. Today, all we need to do is segregate waste…
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Trash Talk : Reinventing Composting and Zero Waste with Vani Murthy aka wormrani
Today we have a very special guest who is inspiring thousands across India to rethink how we manage waste. My guest is none other than Vani Murthy, aka "Worm Rani." On Instagram. Vani's unlikely journey from homemaker to an environmentalist began a decade ago. While visiting the massive landfill…
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Google Maps : The origin story
I talk about the origin of Google Maps and how people navigated in sparsely populated countries like US and Australia pe-GPS era Support me here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shortcastovercoffee https://venmo.com/u/shortcastovercoffee
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Conversations : Murali Neelakantan Looks at Indian Pharma
My guest today is Murali Neelakantan. Murali is a graduate of the '96 batch of the NLSIU and was one of the first India educated lawyers to have become a partner in an English law firm. After moving back to India, he worked as a Senior Partner at Khaitan and Co before joining Cipla as a Global...
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Conversations : State of the Indian Courts with Murali Neelakantan
My guest today is Murali Neelakantan. Murali is a graduate of the '96 batch of the NLSIU and was one of the first India educated lawyers to have become a partner in an English law firm. After moving back to India, he worked as a Senior Partner at Khaitan and Co before joining Cipla as a Global...
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Bldg18 : Fostering Indian Standup Comedians in the US with GK
Today my guest is standup comedian GK. He is not just a standup comedian though; he is a full time engineer and a part time theater artist and movie maker based out of the Bay Area in California. In this episode I will talk to him about his journey to standup comedy and his recent venture, Bldg…
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